I had a conversation with my co-founder Richard today. A casual one. And it stopped me mid-sentence.
We were talking about where we are with AI right now — and something clicked that I haven’t been able to shake since.
It starts with a fact that almost nobody thinks about.
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Your computer can do anything. Seriously.
Every modern computer is Turing complete. That’s a technical way of saying it can perform any computation that is physically possible.
The device you’re reading this on could, in principle:
- Simulate a weather system
- Compose a symphony
- Run an entire business operation
- Automate your complete morning routine
It always could. From the moment you bought it.
So why have most people spent decades using computers for a handful of things — browsing websites, editing documents, compressing images?